"A Modern Landscape"

1100 x 421 mm

 

Beginners course in Acrylic || 2013

Mark: D+

 

From afar the artwork gives the facade of a traditional chinese painting, however as one steps closer, it becomes evident that the mountains are instead ‘fields’ of skyscrapers and industrial buildings. My artwork appropriates the ancient practice of caligraphy and its subject altering the traditional mountainous backdrops to better reflect today’s industrialised reality. It is an artwork that not necessarily aims to challenge our reality, but rather serves as a candid observation.

 

The work is constructed from prints individually and tediously montaged in layers of off-white acrylic washes. The aim is to re-create the somewhat surreal almost claustrophic atmosphere as seen in CBD’s around the world, inparticular, Japan and China.